Reasons for hope
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Jane Goodall Douglas Carlton Abrams "Hope is being able to see that there is light...
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Dan Connors
- Feb 3, 2022
- 6 min
How to make numbers come alive
Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers Chip Heath, Karla Starr 2021 As a math nerd and accountant, I can...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 19, 2022
- 6 min
Is God a jerk?
If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans John Pavlovitz 2021 Growing up in the United States...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 15, 2022
- 6 min
Four Thousand Weeks- how to confront the limits of your life and make the most of it.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Oliver Burkeman 2021 Most of us will live an estimated 4,000 weeks before our...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 8, 2022
- 5 min
Pearls Before Swine- comic relief in dark times
Pearls Awaits the Tide: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Stephan Pastis 2021 I'm one of the dinosaurs that still read the daily...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 4, 2022
- 5 min
How to tell your inner critic to shut the F#@k Up!
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It Ethan Kross Why do we keep hearing voices inside our head? What do...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 29, 2021
- 6 min
Is too much comfort bad for us?
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Michael Easter What's the ultimate goal in this life? ...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 22, 2021
- 4 min
Put some pep in your step- how to be vital and alive
Everyday Vitality: How to Thrive, Survive, and Feel Alive Samantha Boardman Many of us today are feeling discouraged, disconnected, down,...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 15, 2021
- 5 min
Q- Anon - Have we lost our f***ing minds??
The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything Mike Rothschild 2011 When I first heard...
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Dan Connors
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
Lost nations that fell of the map
An Atlas of Extinct Countries Gideon Defoe 2021 We take the sovereignty of arbitrary national borders as sacred today, but any look at...
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Dan Connors
- Nov 22, 2021
- 7 min
Are you sure about that?? Really?????
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Naomi Oreskes, Erik M....
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Dan Connors
- Nov 10, 2021
- 7 min
What makes the muskrat guard his musk?
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave Ryan Holiday 2021 "What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on...
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Dan Connors
- Oct 27, 2021
- 6 min
The War on Terror and how it failed us
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump Spencer Ackerman 2021 From 1945 to 1989 the United States saw...
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Dan Connors
- Oct 21, 2021
- 5 min
Facebook- The algorithm that's killing civilization
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination Sheera Frankel, Cecilia Kang 2021 When I signed up for Facebook back in 2007, I...
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Dan Connors
- Oct 4, 2021
- 5 min
Elizabeth Warren persists
Persist Elizabeth Warren- 2021 "People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: the system IS rigged."...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 21, 2021
- 5 min
Forget the Alamo- Is Texas history based upon a lie?
Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford 2021 History is told...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
Beyond The Castle- A Disney veteran looks behind the curtain
Beyond the Castle: A Guide to Discovering Your Happily Ever After Jody Jean Dreyer 2017 Have you ever wondered what it's like to work...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 9, 2021
- 6 min
Blaming the poor- why do we get poverty all wrong?
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock 2021 “History...
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Dan Connors
- Aug 26, 2021
- 7 min
How can we protect ourselves from bad ideas and wrong information?
Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think Andy Norman 2021 How can anybody be so...
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Dan Connors
- Aug 11, 2021
- 4 min
Healthy brains- how to keep sharp in a stupid world
Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age Sanjay Gupta 2020 What's the secret to good, lifelong health? How can we...
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